A beautifully modelled and vibrant Staffordshire spill vase featuring a lively hunting scene.
A russet stag with white and gilt antlers is in full gallop, with a black and white hunting dog with a gilt collar in hot pursuit. A white tree trunk doubling as a spill vase with colourful, stumpy moss branches provides the backdrop. The scene is set on a green, yellow and brown mossy naturalistic base, beneath which is a gilt band.
The spill vase is very well composed. The stag and dog are lifelike and full of movement, and separately modelled.
The vase is presented in very good condition. The right-most ‘branch’ has been carefully reattached. There are some patches of dark crazing but this does not detract from the spill vase’s attractiveness. There may be some restoration to the back of the figure above the base.
Reference: A smaller and less attractive version of this figure is found in: A. & N. Harding, Victorian Staffordshire Figures, Book Two, p.243, fig. 2914
Height: 8.75”
Date: c. 1860
A beautifully modelled and vibrant Staffordshire spill vase featuring a lively hunting scene.
A russet stag with white and gilt antlers is in full gallop, with a black and white hunting dog with a gilt collar in hot pursuit. A white tree trunk doubling as a spill vase with colourful, stumpy moss branches provides the backdrop. The scene is set on a green, yellow and brown mossy naturalistic base, beneath which is a gilt band.
The spill vase is very well composed. The stag and dog are lifelike and full of movement, and separately modelled.
The vase is presented in very good condition. The right-most ‘branch’ has been carefully reattached. There are some patches of dark crazing but this does not detract from the spill vase’s attractiveness. There may be some restoration to the back of the figure above the base.
Reference: A smaller and less attractive version of this figure is found in: A. & N. Harding, Victorian Staffordshire Figures, Book Two, p.243, fig. 2914
Height: 8.75”
Date: c. 1860
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